Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:25:34 -0700 From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jean-Pierre H. Dumas" <jphdumas@yahoo.fr> Cc: FreeBSD-Security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security tests Message-ID: <19991027172534.A17924@best.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910261303540.51807-100000@green.myip.org>; from Brian Fundakowski Feldman on Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 01:06:21PM -0400 References: <19991026143635.25359.rocketmail@web1003.mail.yahoo.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910261303540.51807-100000@green.myip.org>
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On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 01:06:21PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Jean-Pierre H. Dumas wrote: > > > Is there any other scanners or whatever that I can get > > and run, either from within the server, or from > > outside (I have a FreeBSD 3.2, Linux and Windows 95 > > machine on the Ethernet) > > The only way to really know if your system is "secure" is to thoroughly > audit and test it after having attempted to secure it. One tool you > may be interested in assisting you for checking local and remote security > is SATAN; be careful though, since it doesn't know how to do _everything_. In fact, it knows how to do nothing: http://www.hackernews.com/orig/whyvuln.html -- yan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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